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I think day 8, cloth, is too disconnected with the rest of the game, and particularly, I think that wool is the main reason. you see, you use metal to upgrade wool production, but all metal production needs metal is improve it, and the one metal upgrade that does not cost metal costs a increasingly expensive amounts, and unlike similar idle games, eg antimatter dimensions and the prestige tree, you can't get exponential amounts of the resource needed to upgrade the metal production. So this makes metal production reliant on itself for gaining large amounts, but even the metal upgrades give only tiny increases in production compared to the scale of production you need. And this is made worse by the fact that you need thousands of metal to increase wool production, but unlike the other two steps in making cloth, there is no direct upgrade to increasing the production of the resource you need to upgrade the step. We have a upgrade chain for wood, a upgrade chain for paper, and a upgrade chain for coal, and despite coal being linked to metal production, with you needing coal to smelt metal, through my entire experience of day 7 and 8 you never get a lack of coal to use for smelting, especially after you get the buyable to trade metal for massive coal production. I think that the "Miner's" chain of upgrades should upgrade metal extraction and or gain instead of upgrading coal production. and the increased metal production would also give you the ability to make more coal anyways. I know that if we changed this, we would need re-balance the entire game, but for a game that can only really be played properly once a year, that effort is worth it. It just doesn't feel right having one part bottle neck your production so hard, and no way to upgrade the production of the resource needed to upgrade that bottleneck. thanks for comming to my ted talk I guess.
Day 9, oil, is better than day 9, cloth, as oil gives sizeable and substantial buffs to metal, a main resource from here on out. Oil starts with you drilling to reach oil, which starts slow. The heavy drill needs metal, like day 8's shears, and so I idled for a few minutes o get the metal, and started drilling. Initially I was concerned that this would be like day 8, how you needed lots of metal but it didn't give buffs to metal gain, as the first milestone for oil was a buff to coal gain, but the third milestone completely removed those worries, as we got 5% more metal per meter drilled, which will add up over time. the upgrades were also what you'd call "Nice" as they give major buffs to drill speed, which because of milestone 1 and 3, benefits both coal and metal, two of the main three resources we are concerned with in this day. the milestones also gain us "Heavy Drill Drill", which gives a logarithmically scaling buff to heavy drills, but this buff is strong, so it balances out. the 150m milestone gives a extra upgrade to coal and metal, which again, are two very important resources, and these upgrades benefit both coal and metal gain, which are very important as Heavy Drills require lots of coal to function. Funny enough I didn't have a problem in my game about coal consumption, despite a entire buyable being dedicated to reducing coal consumption at the cost of oil. at 350m we unlock the heavy Extractor, which trade drill speed for massive buffs to metal and coal, but these can be disabled so Heavy Extractor can help you at any stage of this day. we then unlock oil pump, which bases output on both drill speed and heavy extractors, basically, buying and day 8 drilling building buffs oil gain. the oil pump also increases coal consumption by a lot, but again, I never had this problem, this also brings into question why the developer added a buyable that is all about burning oil to reduce coal need. we then have oil upgrades, which are nice and strong, and we also have the Oil Smelter, which uses oil to better auto smelt the metal, which is something I never saw the benefit in. at 3000m we get the final milestone (for now) where it doubles Oil gain, this is nice and powerful. aside from that, it's pretty much just smooth expansion and sailing until you reach the end goal of the day. I would say that day 9 was pretty good, 6/10. (day 8 was 3/10).
Day 10, plastic, starts off good, giving upgrades and automation to previous layers, allowing us to focus on new content. day 10 also builds directly off day 9, with the plastic refinery's needing oil to run. I also even like that it gives cloth some upgrades, because despite it's faults, cloth is kind of neat, but what I don't like is that it gives cloth automation, when there is no buyables or further upgrades for cloth. it also had reasonable timewalls so I can't complain too much. I know this part is smaller than the other posts but I need you to know, plastic feels more like it cares about giving life to past layers than being the most complex layer. 6/10.
day 11, dyes, is very short, as the dyes don't remove what it needs to be created, the wood and oil needed is just a requirement. this allows us to speed through this day, getting massive amount of buffs to previous layers. this does not feel very balanced, but it was a fun day. 7/10, could be higher if it wasn't as short. also I like how the dyes have hotkeys attached to them.
Day 11, management, is quite good. It has us levelling up our elfs, which give various buffs based on what milestone they are. It's good that It gives everything a purpose, and now I retract my statements on cloth in day 10, because it makes sense some of the buffs we get. we also need cloth to build up extra schoolhouses to get more elf levels. The elf levels themselves breath life into old layers and give strong buffs for the next stages. this day was fun, 8/10
day 13, management, is a part 2 of day 12, but unfortunately, I idled the latter half of this day, so I can't give much comment on day 13 late game. but I did enjoy the fact that we gained additional elfs and it expands on the exilent day 12. also sorry for writing day 12 as day 11 in my last post. day 13 is a solid 8/10.
day 14, letters. its uh fine, but it is very short, having beat it in under a single minute. 5/10. but because this day is so short, I think I should talk a bit about myself. I write these to have some sort of dayly ritual for myself, and I will try to do this next year, starting from day 1. I will also fully comment on every day and no these short little summaries. good day.
day 15, wrapping paper, is good. I always like when you need to re-play previous layers but with buffs, it's what got me into these types of games in the first place. I enjoy the automation for primary dyes, it's very nice. now lets get onto the buffs given to the days. for day 1, every tree drops 2 saplings instead of 1. along with a buff based on the size of the forest, this puts a entirely new turn on the normally state gameplay loop of day 1. for day 2, the foundation is now a wood requirement instead of a cost. this is nice but minor. for day 3, coal, we have something which is minor in day 3 itself, but in the proper game, it is really powerful. see decorating day 3 reduces the cost of small fires, and small fires are needed to make bonfires. and unlike everything else in this game, bonfire cost don't scale, and combine with that with lategame paper buffs, and we will see that we get multiple bonfires (which are better than small fires in every way) per small fire. and with our autobuyers and lategame production, that translates to trillions of bonfires. but with the day 3 decoration buff, that goes from trillions, to quadrillions or even more (last i checked I had 18e something bonfires.). day 5 decorating buff, paper, makes it so you can make paper with only wood. good stuff. day 6 decoration buff squares all box buyable's effective ammount. and day 7's decoration buff, metal, just uh, makes it so you don't need to pay attention i guess? 8/10, it was very fun.
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